To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEYChronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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